Here's the latest from NAPA 1015, which is predictably located at 1015 H Street.
I just wanted to let everyone know that we appreciate all of the feedback that has been given through frozentropics. In response to some requests, we've changed the menu some, trying to give some variety by adding a light fare section of sandwiches. I thought it would be helpful to go ahead an post our entire current menu below
Also, although reservations are not required they can be made at 202-396-6272. We are currently open Tuesday-Saturday at 5 p.m.
-Scott (the bartender)
Appetizers
Mussels du jour
$14
Country pate served with pommery mustard
$9
Crab & artichoke crostini
$10.95
Soups
Soup du Jour
French onion
$6.50
Salads
Caesar salad
Hearts of romaine and shaved Asiago
served with crouton spears and our house Caesar dressing
$9.95
House salad
Romaine & baby field greens with shaved red cabbage, carrots,
tomato's & cucumber with our house dressing
$7.95
Light Fair
Grilled chicken sandwich & swiss with a lime mayo. Served with potato wedges
$13.99
Beef tenderloin jalapeño burger & cheddar. Served with potato wedges
$14.99
Grilled vegetable and feta sandwich with a sundried tomato vinaigrette. Served with potato wedges
$13.99
Pasta
Gulf Shrimp
Sauteed shrimp with scallions tomato, applewood bacon, feta, herbs & spices in a white wine sauce
$24.95
Wild mushroom fettuccine
Shiitake, cremini & baby portabella with garlic and shallots finished with herbs and goat cheese
$22.95
Entrees
Rosemary chicken with pommery sauce
sauteed breast of chicken with roasted red potatoes
$16.95
Fish Dujour
market price
Filet of Beef
Fire grilled filet of beef served with shiitake & a Port demi glace
$32.95
Lump crab cakes
$28.50
46 comments:
We went there last night for the first time for dinner and we both liked it.
We started with the Mussels du jour and the Crab & artichoke crostini and then split the French onion soup and the Grilled vegetable and feta sandwich with a sundried tomato vinaigrette. It was all very delicious.
With a glass each of the Pinot Grigio the bill with tip came to just over $90.
The service and ambiance was good. I liked it a lot and hope that the price doesn't keep all neighbors from enjoying what they have to offer.
Next time I think we'll try to make the happy hour for the $10 glass of wine and tapas special.
I have to say - at those prices it would have to very, very good.
Are the prices at Granville's really that much different? If i'm not mistaken aren't the mussels and the sandwiches almost the exact same price? I don't think 90 dollars for two people is really that unreasonable. But to each their own I guess....
This is great news. I really enjoyed my meal at Napa, but it was clearly a place where I couldn't be a regular, given the prices. I never found the prices unreasonable: you definitely get your money's worth, but I can't drop $100 every time my wife and I go to dinner. I'm really glad to have the option of some lighter fare.
Jamie,
thanks for your comments. the light fare menu was put there precisely to address your concerns. Also remember the other specials we have. From 5-7 we have happy hour and a pre-theater dinner menu. The pre-theater menu is 3 courses for 30 bucks!! You can see what's on that menu here:
http://napavalleycaterers.com/whatsnew.php4
For happy hour we have $10 dollar pairings of a happy hour tapas plate (such as shrimp, feta, artichokes and tomato pizza) and a drink (such as a house glasses of wine, beer, margaritas, martinis and mojitos)!
Again, thank you all for your feedback and support. See you at NAPA 1015.
-Scott
eh, figured i'd just post the whole happy hour menu here:
$10.00
-Tunnel of Elms 2005 Chardonnay
-Tunnel of Elms 2005 Cabernet sauvignon
-Todays featured wine
-House martinis and mojitos
-jamaica margaritas
-kir royal
-kir imperial
-heineken and heineken light
-amstel light
paired with your choice of:
-silver dollar potato and chive pancakes with sour cream
-mushrooms stuffed with garlic and prosciutto
-marinated feta cheese with olives and capers
-shrimp, feta, artichokes and tomato pizza
-miniature blue and cheddar burger
-roasted shredded pork tostadas
-marinated mussels
scott,
i really appreciate your responsiveness to comments on this blog. in fact, your responsiveness actually increases my desire to patronize your establishment (an owner responsive to patrons is definitely on my good side!)
so, to help your cause, i went to your site so i can copy/paste your pre-theater menu below, which i plan on taking advantage of in the near future!
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Pre - Theater Menu
Appetizers
Country pate
French onion soup or Soup DuJour
House salad or Caesar's salad
Entrees
Rosemary chicken
Wild mushroom pasta
Fish Dujour
Grilled ribeye
Dessert
Cheese cake
Carrot cake
Chocolate cake
Bread pudding
$30.00
Available fom 5-7
soul searcher,
thanks! just to clarify, i'm not the owner but rather the measly bartender. But i'll still take the compliment.
Scott -
Just wondered if you know what the deal is with Sunday brunch at 1015. I was told when I came in for dinner last week that you'd be serving it, but when I showed up on Sunday the joint was closed, despite the hours on the door saying you should be open.
Have you just not started yet, or what's the plan?
My wife and I stopped by Napa 1015 last night after enjoying some drinks at GM's. I have to say, the prices were about the same, but this is by far the best RESTAURANT (read not a bar that serves food) on H Street!
Although we sat at the bar, we had a couple of drinks and the crab & artichoke crostini. Scott was tending and kept us entertained while we admired the decor and chatted with one of the owners.
Now that we know Napa has a happy hour and a light fare menu we will definitely be back. Congrats to Napa for all their hard work! H Street is a better place with establishments like this.
Also glad to hear it. My husband and I and a couple of friends went there for dinner a couple of weeks ago. The food was great and the service impeccable. But the prices were such that we couldn't go on a regular basis. We'll have to wander that way soon.
I also can't wait until the weather gets nice and Napa can open its back porch!
PS we also heard it was going to offer brunch. when will that begin?
The food is excellent. This type of restaurant is exactly what H Street needs. As this place becomes known and draws large crowds, other restaurants of this quality will soon follow.
I too am concerned about the prices. If they had more entrees under $20, I'd definitely be a regular. My partner and I go out every weekend. We'll definitely be back.
I don't get to check this board very often, so perhaps you've considered this suggestion and rejected it, but would it be possible to extend the happy hour by an hour? I ask only because the h.r. special seems like a great way to try 1015 out, but it could be difficult for many of us who live in the neighborhood but work elsewhere to get back to H Street by 7.
Brunch would also be a great way to try out the fare for those of us who don't regularly spend $100 on dinner and drinks. The light fare is a great alternative, but I'm likely to go somewhere else for sandwiches.
I haven't been yet, but we are ALWAYS looking for brunch places close by. That would be great! Keep us posted.
I cannot rave enough about the chocolate mousse cake!!!
i think the prices are fine.
i usually trek to an irani place in VA, clydes, legal seafoods, fogo de chao, wolfgang puck, etc. for a decent meal. the prices there are higher (for some here, read: worse), but you eat very, very well.
folks, when you eat good food, you pay for it. if napa were in georgetown, you wouldn't be raising a stink, would you? hell, if it were on barracks row, you wouldn't be "raising your eyebrows".
my, my. you folks are a very hard crowd to please, and for no good reason.
i can't wait until the napa owners open a more high end restaurant on h street. we could use the capital infusion from folks that like to eat good food, and are willing to pay for it.
Wow, so glad to see such interest!
Regarding Brunch, the owners felt that at this time there is not enough interest to start sunday brunch off so early so they have decided to postpone it. It seems a lot of you do have an interest and i'll be sure to pass that along. Brunch will eventually happen though!
I'll also check in about the happy hour times.
Lookin forward to seeing you at NAPA (i'll be the red head in the back)
-Scott
I'm really looking forward to visiting Napa! Speaking for the Beer Geek contingent, perhaps you could expand the beer selection to include either some of our fine local beers (Dominion, Dogfish Head, Flying Dog [thanks to their move to Frederick], Wild Goose) or California micros and craft brews like Sierra Nevada, Mendocino, or Anderson Valley?
Poo Poo -
You're absolutely right, I wouldn't raise a stink about these prices in Georgetown, just as the owners wouldn't raise a stink about paying three times higher rent in Georgetown.
It's not unreasonable of Frozen Tropics readers to expect that since the owners of Napa 1015 aren't saddled with Georgetown costs, we shouldn't be saddled with Georgetown prices.
uh kerry,
How do you know that Napa 1015 costs are not as high as a Georgetown location? Other very informed comments on this blog site (Joe Engler and Richard Layman)suggests that rents are way high on H Street.
They have to pay the "Georgetown" wages, "Georgetown" food costs, "Georgetown" renovation costs, ...
As too many others have noted, would it really kill people to sign their posts with some kind of name. Doesn't have to be your real name, but - for example - I have no idea if the two anons that responded to my last post are the same person or not.
Anyway anon 2:17 - how do I know? I've looked at real estate listings. The amount of foot traffic passing a given piece of real estate in Georgetown (and especially foot traffic with money to spend) is a lot higher than that passing a storefront on H. Informed voices have pointed out that H Street rents are high - and they are. G'Town rents, however, are astronomical.
Anon 2:21 - I can only assume that given the income base in G'Town, the the established nature of the commercial/dining district, the greater (though admittedly not great) availability of transportation links, and the significant number of other draws to the region, you couldn't possibly be suggesting that it would be reasonable for any given restaurant to charge the same amount in G'town and on H. So since that couldn't be your point, please tell me what it is.
I think the restaurants in Logan or U Street are better comparisons. There are lots of restaurants in both areas where the majority of entrees are in the teens and low twenties. At those prices, they can attract newcombers and regulars.
Scott - can you post when you NAPA 1015 starts brunch.
poo poo -
"my, my. you folks are a very hard crowd to please, and for no good reason."
Most of the comments related to prices were criticism; just statements of facts: We can't all afford to dine there regularly because of the cost --- although the food is excellent.
Awesome if people start trecking from VA to H Street to dine.
I just hope there's enough demand at this time, in this location, for that high-quality restaurant. I'd love to see it there for several years to come.
Gotta hand it to Scott and the owners having to read the posts ---everyone telling them how do run their business. Please don't take offense. We like you.
OMG, some of you folks should take a marketing class or two. or have lived in dc for a decade and a half.
i'm not going to knock your comments. they're valid. you don't like the price for excellent food - regardless of where the establishment is located.
i don't have the time or inclination to take you through the history of development in DC, but suffice it to say, it's establishment like napa (and R&R hotel, palace, etc.) that transform an area.
i owned a home in georgetown in the 90's. it was a dive then (a three story rowhouse blocks from the current cinema, which i purchased for $220k). i used to eat at roy rogers (where the renovation hardware now stands). there were shootings, muggings, etc. to this day when i talk to people on planes about georgetown, they ask if it's still the hell hole that it once was. obviously it's not anymore. why?
good question.
folks took risks, and made their return while at the same time totally transforming the economic topography of the area.
it's risk takers and leaders like englert and the owners of NAPA, et. al. that make a difference.
to kerry, in particular, if you want to live in a cheap arsed place, be my guest. i'll be sad to see you go. you obviously have no idea about the dynamics of a developing city of about ten square miles - WHICH also happens to be the capitol of the U.S. let alone the world.
i simply can't fathom the ignorance of some of the posters on this board.
question, kerry, do you own a home or do you rent? i'm assuming you rent. or you're an intern.
maybe you should suggest a moratorium on meal prices on H street at the next council meeting?
something above popeye's chicken, and below NAPA.
sound about right? yeah? uh huh, i thought so.
sorry, buddy. the prices are never going to be the same as they were for you in iowa, north dakota, indiana, or wherever.
get used to it, or go back home.
and i mean that with the best of intents.
have a great day in the nation's capitol!
me
While I don't dispute much of what Doo Doo says, georgetown as a 'Hell Hole' in the 1990's makes me wonder if you are from Iowa or Nebraska. While home prices dropped dramatically in the early 1990's (as they did all over the country), Georgetown was still a rich, exclusive neighborhood. And just like many rich commercial areas, it was (and still is) a magnate for theives. You would have to go back to the early 1930's, before FDR's New Deal and the expansion of the Federal Gov. that brought thousands of new residents to the city, to when Georgetown might possibly even be seen as a 'rough' spot.
dc since the 70's:
i value your point of view.
i'm 38 years old.
i know what i know, from living here, buying a home here, and being very interactive with the community.
why don't we go back to 1890?
as you seem to be so astute, check out the demographics of the area back then. i'm sure you have numerous ways of looking up the history of the area.
seriously. i meet folks on my travels that ask if georgetown is still the place 'to get nookie', or party hard.
i lived on cecil place. it's by the waterfront. i remember being late for work because my neighbor was lying at the bottom of my street after having been gang raped.
don't tell me about georgetown in the 90's. i know all too well.
where were you in the 90's? should i speculate about where you were living?
go for it....
oh.. 70's person.
i grew up in brasil
but i do find the iowa (etc.) people very interesting.
very unique people, those midwesterners.
i don't mean to pick on them, but i have to say that their naivete, and their ability to think that they are right is really funny to me.
it cracks me up, actually.
americans from that region of the planet can be so silly, and so righteous at the same time.
enough, i'm bored.
I lived in Mount Pleasant in the 1990's.
I don't know - I've spent $100's of dollars in the bars on H st. It doesn't seem unreasonable to drop $100 in the same neighborhood for food. I've yet to go to Napa. My wife's B-day's coming up, maybe that can be our excuse:)
we should take a poll.
i think the most that i've spent on h street was about $450 - at the palace of wonders, buying rounds for newly made friends.
yeah, it hurt the next day...
Mr Andrew Grossman,
I do remember you and your lady friend coming to our restaurant for dinner. It was a pleasure talking to the both of you that evening. As I recall, you were on your way to the theater in Alexandria.I also remember bringing and presinting the bottle of white wine you had requested . I asked you if the temperature of the bottle was satisfactory or if you'd preffer an ice bucket. You then asked me what the correct temperature for wine was. I am not quite sure what my response was but, I do remember you mentioning your father's strong oppinion on wines. You and your friend ordered from the Pre-Theater menu and I came to your table and asked if everything was okay. You, very friendly reply yes. As you were leaving I, again spoke to you and thanked you for stopping and supporting our restaurant. I am very disappointed that you left with such strong bad feelings and horrible experience. I do assure you that everything we prepare is fresh and that desserts do not come out of a box. In regards to our wine list, we are working on it and we are increasing the number of wines offered. Please understand that we just opened and that eventhough the response for the most part has been positive, we are still wondering if there is going to be enough support for us to keep our doors open. Our frood prices range from $13.99-$32.95 (regular menu) Pre- Theater 3 course menu $30.00. Wines are offered from $6.00 per glass and up.
Again, thank you for your comments and hope for your continuous support for all the Restaurants and bars on H St.
Cheers!
Scott,
Thank you for beeing such a trooper! We all appreciate and feel very lucky to have you on our team. Don't ever feel like you are just a measly bartender! Just hang in there buddy. Bussines will get better and as I told you many times, we will take care of you!!!
Cheers!
George
Just to echo a few comments on the board, I agree that $100 for dinner is not an astromical price these days. But, first, at Napa $100 won't get you much. If I'm going to dinner, I'm not ordering a sandwich. Two entrees and a bottle wine put you just under $100 before adding appetizers, dessert, taxes or tip. Second, DC has wonderful restaurants. Central, Brasserie Beck, Montmartre, Hook , etc. are all amazing and you can get entrees for high teens/low 20s. In my opinion, if I'm paying $25 or $30 for an entree - it better be worth the extra money. For me, Napa 1015 doesn't warrant it.
Thanks for the response!
We look forward very much to returning soon--especially for the light plates during happy hour, which sound very attractive--and are eager to see Napa grow and prosper.
I can't even imagine how difficult it is open to open a restaurant in DC. Remember that whatever chiding and criticism shows up on Frozen Tropics, most of it is, I think, posted by friends who want you to succeed.
In other words, the most critical may be those of us who think you're on to something great.
That's amazing Andrew! People like me who enjoyed their meal must be "friends" , while critics like you are the real deal.
I don't know the people at Napa 1015, However, I have gone back to Napa, because I've enjoyed my meal, and I can walk there.
Drew, it's true that Central, Brasserie Beck, Montmartre, and Hook are great places, however, with the exception of Montmarte, you have to drive to them and park. For me, it just really nice to have a decent neighborhood place to dine.
Easy, 9:37. I think you're misreading Andrew's point. I believe he's saying any criticism should be taken by the 1015 folks as friendly advice, not mean spirited attacks on the business.
We should advocate for a TGI Friday's and Applebee's restaurant to come to H St. They have great prices.
9:37 sez...hmmm. I think that you are correct sheriff. I misread Andrew's comments. Sorry about that. Save room for the chocolate mousse cake.
Wow - I'm sort of shocked by the level of hostility on this board. In any event, I think that it's great that NAPA 1015 would consider comments from the community. I typically seek out restaurants that are a bit more affordable, but will definitely check out the happy hour special. The great thing about DC is that there are a lot of affordable restaurants with high quality food that aren't TGI Fridays or whatever chains were mentioned.
I hope those prices are sustainable or, if not, I hope that it's willing to reconsider either the menu or the prices or both.
"We should advocate for a TGI Friday's and Applebee's restaurant to come to H St. They have great prices."
I know this comment was made to troll the blog, but a mid-priced family chain resturant might be for the food traffic in general in this area. Heck, even Georgetown has a Uno's...
I can eat for less at any restaurant on U Street or Barracks Row. I live in the neighborhood and want Napa to succeed. However, I really do not how they can afford to keep their doors open at Old Ebitt Grill prices in a neighborhood that is in the process revitalizing and reinventing itself. In fact, the prices quoted are higher than Old Ebitt and they downtown by the White House with a long history and high rent. Unfortunately, H Street is at least 2 years away from sustaining a high-end restaurant. The restaurant business is a tough one and I have seen many go under real fast by not changing their strategy when things are not working. I personally do not have a problem with your prices but I am afraid my friends do.
The food is really well prepared but in all honesty, not super innovative. It's great food for a neighborhood restaurant but not "destination food" that will draw folks to the area just to eat, the way Granville's has. That place has a hook but Napa, lovely as it is, really doesn't. It's a good option for the pre-theatre crowd but I doubt the foodies will trek here.
So while I don't think the prices are too high for the food or even really the neighborhood, you'd have to be churning out really top of the line out-there creations to get enough people down here to eat it. The theatres are busy but not THAT busy and the neighbors will come but the high prices make it a special treat option rather than a once a week place.
I really want them to succeed and maybe when the upstairs/deck opens they can do two different menus?
Napa 1015
We want to thank all you for your comments. We want you to know that we are still making changes and including new food items to our menu. We want to believe that we have something to offer everyone. As of Wednesdey February 13, we will be offering wine tastings every Wednesday from 5-7 pm for 6 weeks. Wew hope that this will be a great success and that it will give us an opportunity to meet our neighbors.
Cheers!
H St is more hip, safer and has better food than Adams Morgan. U Street is not good. Commercial real estate prices, for each of the three areas, are similar. Developers know that Capitol Hill is more expensive than G'town and expanding rapidly to Stadium/ Armory/ Langston golf course and they're milking it. The San Fransisco style trolly will be in by Winter '09 and link Chinatown to Langston.
Napa, by then, may well face competition from Clyde's of G'town East but until then they might want to check out their future that will have to conform to something like Corderoy Restaurant (on 9th NW above Mass.) to see what's being offered that is about the same price as Napa or cheaper and has the foodies raving.
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